John Steinbeck Quotes

John Steinbeck Quotes.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck
A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
John Steinbeck
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.
John Steinbeck
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
John Steinbeck
Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
John Steinbeck
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
John Steinbeck
Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
John Steinbeck
To be alive at all is to have scars.
John Steinbeck
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck
Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John Steinbeck
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
John Steinbeck
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
John Steinbeck
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
John Steinbeck

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